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Researchers from Kaspersky Lab have discovered what they say is milestone in the evolution of the Zeus banking Trojan: a 64-bit version of Zeus that communicates with its command and control servers over the Tor anonymity network.

PARIS - An association grouping web giants such as Google and Facebook on Wednesday slammed the adoption in France of a bill that gives intelligence agencies wider access to personal data without prior authorization from a judge.

According to new market research from IDC Government Insights, overall IT security spending by the U.S. Federal Government will rise from $5.9 billion in 2012 to over $7.3 billion in 2017. In 2014, IT security spending by the Federal Government is expected to top $6.1 billion.

As we approach the end of the calendar year, a variety of predictions on information security and network security trends for 2014 will take place.

ATTINGHAUSEN - It looks like the ideal location for a James Bond thriller: a massive underground bunker in a secret location in the Swiss Alps used for keeping data safe from prying eyes.

Microsoft issued 11 security bulletins today to wrap up the final Patch Tuesday of the year.

Software vulnerabilities from two popular commercial zero-day brokerage houses give cyber-criminals and nation-state attackers advance access to as many as 100 software exploits on any given day, according to data released by NSS Labs.

MONTREAL - Canada has spied abroad on behalf of the US National Security Agency, according to a classified document cited by public broadcaster CBC Tuesday. Ottawa even opened up espionage posts overseas at the request of the US agency, CBC said, citing an NSA briefing paper leaked by fugitive former US government contractor Edward Snowden.

A new report from the Security for Business Innovation Council (SBIC) underscores what many mature enterprises know - that IT organizations need to collaborate with the business side of the house in the name of security.

Venafi, a Salt Lake City, Utah-based provider of enterprise key and certificate management solutions, has launched a new product that the company describes as a mobile device "kill switch" which gives IT security teams the ability to instantly cut off mobile access to applications and networks when suspicious activity is detected.

FireEye, the recently-gone-public provider of threat protection solutions, has made its flagship threat prevention platform available for small and midsize businesses (SMBs).

San Francisco, California-based Splunk, a provider of software that helps organizations gather and make use of machine data from a diverse set of sources, today announced it has acquired Cloudmeter, a provider of network data capture technologies.

WASHINGTON - US mobile carriers provided some one million records to law enforcement in 2012 related to warrants, wiretaps, location data and "cell-tower dumps," documents released by a US senator showed.

Fiserv, a provider of financial services technology solutions, on Monday announced the release of its next generation Financial Crime Risk Management (FCRM) Platform.